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Entries Tagged as 'NineToFive outside the 925'

I’m so tired, I’m so tired/I wish I was the moon tonight

December 17th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Sunshine-y orange, to cheer me up on rainy days like today, by yaznotjaz
Sometimes when I am bored or tired or stressed, I hit “compose” on a new email window and type nonsense. Like this one at work today:
This is one example of the ways in which we can collaborate on projects based around shared issues […]

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Tags: Glorious mundanity · Links to love · NineToFive outside the 925 · Salaam Namaste

I don’t know why I say the things I say, but I say them anyway

November 16th, 2007 · 20 Comments

Let’s go home, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
By Tuesday or so, I had already realized this week needed to be over. My GMail status:
Dear God: Please make it be Saturday already, because this week kind of sucks. Thank you.
Love, Yasminay
The responses were hilarious:
Anjum, channeling God:
Dear Yasminay,
*sigh*, I get this request every week from you.
[…]

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Tags: All-Star Crackstar Squad · NineToFive outside the 925 · Rockstar and Crescent · NaBloPoMo2007

Infiltration and brainwashing: You have a thousand serious moves

November 7th, 2007 · 4 Comments

A chessboard awaits potential players in an Oakland park, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
The Lovely L Lady asked me this evening, “So, what do you do during this meditation?”
“Well. I just close my eyes and concentrate on dua [supplications] and dhikr and any other prayers I have memorized.”
“Oh, good,” she said in mock relief. “I thought […]

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Tags: All-Star Crackstar Squad · NineToFive outside the 925 · Rockstar and Crescent · NaBloPoMo2007

Talking at the tandoori cafe

November 2nd, 2007 · 18 Comments

Sunshine seating at the New Tandoori Cafe, San Jose, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
I had dinner tonight with two women I met a couple of months ago at a work-related event. They somehow took a liking to me, and expressed interest in meeting up sometime. Sure, I said, thinking, New friends! After some back and forth, […]

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Tags: NineToFive outside the 925 · NaBloPoMo2007

Thrown to paper and wasted: I can’t even concentrate on this, it’s overthought, anticipated

September 12th, 2007 · 12 Comments

Hanging out at the art store, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
It’s never a good idea to blog about work, but I would just like to say: It’s not a part of my job description to waste time answering idiotic questions like, “What should I label this box? ‘Scratch paper’? Or ‘Scrap paper’?”
I am a very important […]

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Your light shines brighter than the best

April 6th, 2007 · 28 Comments

Pencils so pretty, it makes you want to eat them, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
My (3 or more) Beautiful Things posts always contain snippets from a single given day of the week, but, in this case, I haven’t written in a while, so the following is a compilation of things from the past couple of weeks:
one. […]

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Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Casa420 and Familia · NineToFive outside the 925 · Rockstar and Crescent

Keep the same appointments I kept, if you try walking in my shoes

March 14th, 2007 · 11 Comments

Rainbow skirt, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz
In response to an email I sent earlier today, a colleague replied simply,
Yasmine,
You’re so good with detail.
In a few simple words, he managed to cheer me up and, for now, make it all okay: The long hours; the nonstop conference calls, meetings, and events that take up nearly all […]

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Tags: NineToFive outside the 925

Slowly strolling in the sweet sunshine

March 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz
I took the above photo in mid-January and uploaded it to flickr in mid-February. The title:
Somehow I trick myself into believing that if I go around wearing floaty summer dresses, winter will end all the sooner.
The caption:
This day’s wardrobe consisted of the following: Flared jeans + floaty summer dress + […]

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Tags: Glorious mundanity · NineToFive outside the 925

Stop sniveling and get over it

March 9th, 2007 · 13 Comments

Get stoned at workOriginally uploaded by yaznotjaz

Driving along to work this morning, I heard on the radio that today is Get Over It Day. The website is hilarious - you can type out what you want to get over, and click “submit,” and it turns into a piece of […]

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Tags: Links to love · NineToFive outside the 925

The sun must come

February 19th, 2007 · 1 Comment

All photos originally uploaded by yaznotjaz; collage created last summer by Hashim_A, rockstar (and tea-lover. gross!) extraordinaire. Photos may be individually viewed in the Muir Beach photoset.
-Tomorrow is the sister’s birthday, and in ten days it’s mine - and I’m so horrible at this birthday business, mine or anyone else’s. Last year, all I wanted […]

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Tags: Glorious mundanity · NineToFive outside the 925 · Salaam Namaste

Beautiful things from a Tuesday in the month where everyday felt like Monday

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments

yellowsunshine diptych, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
From Tuesday, January 23, 2007
one. The Howie Day album I haven’t listened to in over a year because it inexplicably started skipping just as inexplicably works perfectly again when I pop it into my CD player while driving to work. I spend my commute listening to music that reminds me […]

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Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · NineToFive outside the 925

Believe it or not, I super-sized my sights on the surprise in the cereal box

November 18th, 2006 · No Comments

Sprinkles are for happy kids, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Back in the summer, when I first started working where I do now, my new colleague A watched me shovel cold apple pie into my mouth and asked, “Is that your breakfast?”
“Yes.”
She rolled her eyes, and I asked, “What? What’s wrong with eating apple pie for breakfast?”
“There […]

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I want to stay another season/see summer upon this sorry land

November 13th, 2006 · No Comments

Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
The heat wasn’t working at the office today, which means I spent most of the day being aggravated about the cold and - of course - engaging in monologues with God about how much I disapprove of this winter business.
“It’s all in your head, Yasminay,” […]

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Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · NineToFive outside the 925

(More than three) beautiful things: The semi-work edition

October 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Okay, kids, so remember that part where I said I was going to post “three beautiful things” everyday? Well, clearly, it didn’t work so well, because - once again! - I haven’t really updated in nearly three weeks. The good news is, I’ve been scribbling down beautiful things in my lovely little […]

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Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · NineToFive outside the 925

Three Things (plus three more)

October 6th, 2006 · No Comments

Sunlight shadows on the sidewalk, Friday afternoon, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
This afternoon, after clicking over to Blogger.com and pausing before signing in (believe it or not, this is something I do often: I decide I want to update this weblog, I click over to Blogger, and then I just stop, overcome by a feeling of […]

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Tags: (3)BeautifulThings · Blogistan and the Wide World of Webs · NineToFive outside the 925